The Vengeance on Faye Valentine

By Fantasy Cat

Disclaimer: I own Sam and that's all ya need to know.

Chapter Eight: A Faint Goodbye

"Excuse me? What in the world did you just say?"

"That I'm Edward's mother."

"This has got to be the most awkward moment ever…since I just had this baby."

"It's the first too," said Sam.

"Okay," said Faye. "So…you're Ed's mom. You used to be in the Syndicate with Spike, and…you're a man. You got a lot of explaining while I back away from you." Faye began to slowly back away and sits down on a chair.

Sam begins his story. "Ed's father Appledelhi and I were into science. It was our lives and our careers, and we found a place to settle where we had Ed, but we named her Francoise. Well one day we were camping out while doing an outdoors experiment with our daughter and then a meteor crash on our campsite. Everything went black. I woke up months later in a hospital on Mars, and woke up a man. It seems that some files got lost and I received the wrong operation. I didn't have any money to pay to have it corrected because my memory was still fuzzy."

"At least you remembered that you were a woman," said Faye with a strange interest.

"Well anyway, the hospital I was in had happened to be owned by the Red Dragons and since I had no memory and no money they offered me a job to pay off my debts. I accepted it. I didn't know how long I was planning to be there, but soon they loved me enough that I was being considered to take over. I started having weird visions of the future and stuff. You remember when I told you how I save the VAN's life and they sent me into hiding? While I was there, my memory started to come back. Just the parts where I knew I wasn't supposed to be there that I had to be somewhere else. Then you came, and all of that stuff happened. When Spike took over, my memory returned to me completely and I returned to Earth. They were no longer living at the home that we once lived in. I searched but couldn't find them.

"Finally I searched the Internet seeking help. Someone named Radical Edward online said she could get my husband's records. According to the medical records Appledelhi suffered memory lapse from the meteor and did meteor chasing as a career in my memory. He thought I died, that or he wouldn't remember having a wife. Then Radical Ed told me that Appledelhi was her father and I was shocked. I didn't tell her then, I couldn't tell her now. When I was first introduced to her on the Bebop I nearly had a heart attack. That's why I have been to shy since I got here. I let Ed help me deliver your baby so I could get a better look at her."

Faye looked confused as heck. "You should tell her before you go. Although I doubt she'll be bawling over you. More like leap onto you and stuff."

"I think I'm gonna freak her out being a man and all," said Sam.

Faye shrugged, "Hey, you freaked me out!"

"Hey, looks like he's going." Faye turned and saw the nurse take her baby over to his new adoptive parents. They definitely dressed formal and were slightly older than Faye but much more sophisticated. Faye looked down. She couldn't bear it.

"Hey Faye? What would you have named him?"

"I don't know," she said depressingly. "You think of something." She turned to look at the window and stood up. He was no longer there anymore. "Cade," said Sam. "I'm sure Cade's gone to a nice home."

Faye looked at Sam and for the first time since the baby came smiled and muttered a quiet, "Thanks…Samantha!" She snickered. Then she felt a tap on the shoulder. She turned to see Spike. "What's so funny, Faye?" he asked her. "You look as though you were feeling better."

"Nothing makes me feel better," said Faye. "If any thing would make me the slightest bit happy it, would be to finally go home." Faye got her wish. Everyone was back on the Bebop as it went off into space again.

Sometimes, Spike would walk by Faye's locked room and swore that she had tears. Perhaps he never took her seriously but he could understand why anyone would be upset. 'One day,' he thought. Someday he would be able to go in there and comfort the shrew woman with his lanky arms. He felt that if anyone could bring Faye's world back together again, it would be him. Then Spike shook his head. What was he thinking? Why was he thinking this way? This wasn't Julia, but then Julia was no more. He had moved on with everything in his life but Julia. But once, Julia WAS his everything. Now it felt like the Bebop was his world, his place of belonging rather than ruling over a bloody society that he is being killed for.

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The man could not believe it. As he sat down in his big office staring at the laptop, he found a recently signed adoption record. And under what was marked "Biological Parent:" was Faye Valentine. He found the answers he was looking for and it seems, he knew how he was going to get back at the true murderer.

DUN! DUN! DUN! I'm glad that I was able to explain about Sam. I know school starts soon, but please don't panic because I will keep at pace with this story and much as possible. AKA I won't kill this fic, I swear to ya! Now review me!!!!

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